UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

The Changing Campus: 1960

The campuses looked significantly different since
1950. New buildings sprung up on the north and south sides of
Euclid Avenue.

By 1960, WRU had completed Beaumont Hall for the
School of Applied Social Sciences, I. F. Freiberger Library,
Claud Foster Hall (dormitory), and Newton D. Baker Memorial
Building for Cleveland College. The athletic field was completely
renovated and dedicated October 6, 1951 as Justice
John H. Clarke Field. The John Schoff Millis Science Center
and Joseph Treloar Wearn Laboratory for Medical Research were
underway (both buildings being dedicated together in 1962).

By 1960, Case had completed Yost Hall and Pardee
Hall (the first two dormitories for Case), Sam W. Emerson Physical
Education Center, Lester and Ruth P. Sears Library-Humanities
Building, William E. Wickenden Electrical Engineering Building,
the north addition to the Albert W. Smith
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building, Strosacker
Auditorium, Frank Adgate Quail Building, the Propulsion and
Aerodynamics Lab (commonly called the Jet Propulsion Lab), and
the Nassau Astronomical Station in Montville, Ohio.

Number of buildings in use by Case in 1960:
19.

Number of buildings in use by WRU in 1960:
67.

In this aerial photograph we see the railroad
tracks cutting vertically through the right third of the
photo. Van Horn Field and Clarke
Field are to the immediate left of the tracks. Note
the new Emerson Physical Education Center next to Van
Horn. You can see the new buildings on the Case campus
immediately to the left of Van Horn. Above Severance Hall
you can see the new Freiberger Library and to the right
of Severance, Claud Foster Hall.

This map shows the Adelbert and Case
campuses. On the southwest corner of Adelbert Road and
Euclid Avenue is the new Baker Building. On the Case side
(lower half) you can see the new buildings: Pardee Hall,
Rockefeller addition (labeled as "New Physics building"),
Strosacker Auditorium (labeled as "Lecture Hall"),
the Smith Building addition (labeled as "New Chemistry
Building"), Yost Hall, Wickenden Building (labeled
as "Electrical Engineering Building"), Sears
Library (labeled as "Library - Humanities Building"),
Propulsion Laboratory, Calder Clinic (labeled as "Health
Clinic"), Emerson Physical Education Center (labeled
as "Gymnasium" and "Aquatics"), and
next to the railroad tracks, the Quail Building.

This aerial view shows primarily the original
parts of the Case and WRU campuses. Euclid Avenue is the
vertical street on the left. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
is in the foreground. The railroad tracks cut the top
right corner.

Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, November 2004.